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either-handed

adj

Etymology

From either + handed.

  1. inherited from *handuz✻
  2. inherited from *handu✻
  3. inherited from hand
  4. inherited from hond
  5. suffixed as handed — “hand + ed”
  6. compounded as either-handed — “either + handed”

Definitions

  1. Able to use either (right or left) hand, often equally well

    Able to use either (right or left) hand, often equally well; ambidextrous.

    • There certainly is, amongst mankind, a vast weight of opinion against my position that man is, by nature, as either-handed as an ape, and that custom should follow nature.

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